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Jannette McCullough Registered Nurse
Shamanic Practitioner

Jeannette McCullough is a Registered Nurse and Shamanic Practitioner and Educator who has experience in many diverse health care settings including medical cardiology, orthopedics and addiction treatment. As an educator, she developed and taught courses in Pharmacology, Human Growth and Behaviour, Psychology, Life Skills and Addictions for George Brown College. Jeannette helped to establish, and successfully managed, a fundraising operation for Bayview Community Hospice.

She started training in 1996 with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, an international organization dedicated to the preservation, study and transmittal of shamanic knowledge and practice. She is a graduate of the Foundation's Three-Year Program in Advanced Shamanism and Shamanic Healing. Michael Harner, Sandra Ingerman and the spirits who are aligned with her are her teachers. And she has completed Sandra Ingerman's Two-Year Teacher Training Program.

Jeannette has been offering shamanic approaches to health and healing in her independent practice since 1998. Her teaching includes a wide range of exploration from that worldview. She feels she has found her true home in her shamanic work.

Jeannette is also a founding member and served for three years on the executive of the Complementary Therapies Nurses' Interest Group which represents the growing number of nurses who practice complementary medicine in Ontario. The group was officially recognized, and given special interest group status by the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario in September of 2002.

As well, she is the chairperson of the Spirituality in Health Care Network in Toronto. The network was founded in December 2000 by Yvonne Kason MD and John Thornton MD and is dedicated to integrating spirituality with psychotherapy and health care.

Jeannette served for two years on the Integrative Health Care Round Table as a representative of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. The Round Table is an affiliation of conventional and complementary organizations established in 2004 to promote the development of integrative health care in Ontario and beyond.

She is a past board member and a life time member of the Friends of Alternative and Complementary Therapies (FACT), a community of professionals and consumers who provide credible information and education about complementary and alternative medicine. FACT was founded in 1998 by psychiatrist, Dr. Ted Lo.

In the fall of 2008, Jeannette spent time with Joanna Macy in a forest in the Bershires learning how to offer experiences of what is known as The Work That Reconnects. Based on a body of material developed by Joanna and others over many years, it draws on Buddhism, systems theory, deep ecology and the Gaia hypothesis.

Since the fall of 2009, she has been on the advisory council of KIN, an international network for indigenous and inter-cultural development founded by Dr. Lewis Williams.

More recently she was offered training in the Pachamama Alliance's "Awakening The Dreamer Changing The Dream Symposium," and, of course, has been weaving some of that brilliance into all her other work.

Jeannette serves to foster community, health and empowerment through her work and in her life.

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